^ onllrn gard Poultry Exhibition . The Western Poultry Association commenced its second annnal exhibition in this oity the 12 th Last . Quite a number of extensive breeders were absent with exhibits at the World s Fair at New Orleans . However there was a very oreditable display of the moBt popular varieties of exoellent speois mens . Among the more prominent exhibitors we uotioe the following : J . B . Brabazon , of Delavan , Wis ., who breeds some forty varieties of land and water fowls on his 120-aore farm . He showed Wyandottes , Blaok and White-faced Poland fowls and chicks , and some of the best specimens of Toulouse geese and Bronze turkeys we have ever seen . He has never been successful with artificial breeding . E . E . Kennioott , of Arlington HeightB , from his yards made a fine show of Light Brahmas , Plymouth Books , White and Brown Leghorns , Partridge and Brown Cochins , eto . Mr . K . is extensively engaged in artificial breeding of young ehioks for the Ohioago mark...

Ifctttgrafhg . —( Miss Edith . has ju 9 t favored the company -with a brilliant performance on the violin ) . Misa Edith s mi ( to her neighbor ) : Ido so admire the violin .. Your daughter plays , I sappi sa ? Mrs . DePorque : Wall , no ; Alicia cant play on the violin ; bnt she plays beautifully on the bandoline . Yon know she was two whole months at the Paris Observatory . —They were walking together under a very little umbrella , and she liktd him well enoug h not to want a large spread . of alpaca . He was modest , and seemed to be nervous , and she finally remarked , very softly , and with a note of interrogation : — • Oharliet Ym , Fannie , he responded , Ill carry the umbrella , if youll let me . Oh , no , I can carry it . YeB , Charlie , bnt , yon see , your arm takes op so muoh room tha t one side of me is out in the wet . I know that , Fannie , bnt what will I do with my arm ; wont it be in the way just the same ? I dont know , Charlie . Gas Clarke always know * what to d...

jVgricnltor Hard Times—The Vital Question . EDITOBS WESTEBN BUBAL : —The Bepublioans say the times grow worse for the inooming of the Democrats , and the latter reply : This is the result of twenty-five years of misrule . One ories that it is tariff tinkering and fear of free trade ; another that it is this same high tariff which has brought on general stagnation . Has it ? England ; with her boasted free trade is faring worse than we . Protection kills the goose in America , and free trade finishes it in England ) Look at it ! exclaims another politician , Has not the country always prospered wider a high tariff , and when this has been removed have not stagnation and panics brought ns to ruin ? Perhaps , bnt we have had twenty or more years of high tariff , almost prohibitory at times , and doeB the present condition of affairs , offer anything to boast off From press and platform ; from oounting house to farm , from palaoe to cabin goes np the wail , hard times . When the pressin...

IjWticttltaral Letters to Nursery Men . An exohange says that some nursery men complain of the time they have to spend in answering letters requesting them to give instructions for managing something whioh the writer orders of them . Well , snoh journals as TBE WESTEBN BUBAI . are always glad to answer any inquiries oonoerning the treatment of plants and trees , and , perhaps , striotly speaking , they are the proper souroe from which to seek suoh information . But we do not think that there is any great oause of complaint if those who order plants or trees ask for instruction . The majority of firms isBue catalogues whioh are likely to contain the information sought , and in that case it is certainly not much trouble to give it . But if a letter must be written , it will not require muoh time to write it , and the nursery man is vitally interested in having his patron make a success of what he bnys . But the complaint is further made , that through ignorance or carelessness , failu...

IgwifitfUimtl Hardy Apples for the Northwest . E DITOBS WESTEBN RUBAL : —In THE RUBAL for January 24 th you have an editorial entitled , What is the Matter , in whioh you quote at length from an artiole of mine published some months ago , entitled I think , Hardy , Apples for the Northwest . I still hold to the sentiments expressed in that article and the quotations you made from it , and would , therefore , very much like to hear from those whom you mention in your dosing paragraph as holding the views expressed in the last sentence , to wit : But it must not be forgotten that some experienced apple growers affirm that Russian apples are not what the West needs . Let these gentlemen git right up in meetin and give UB their reasons for so thinking . For this is one of the most generally interesting questions now before the people of the Northwest , simply for the one reason that nearly every land owner , be it a town or oity lot , or farm , large or small , wishes to grow fruit of s...